Intel Categorically Refuses Public Meeting with Congo Advocates
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the heads up on your planned trip tomorrow – appreciate it. I am actually not based in Santa Clara, I am based in Arizona (as are a number of our supply chain teams and execs) and I did not have plans to be in Santa Clara tomorrow. To set expectations for your visit (since I know you are traveling a long way), I wanted to make sure that you knew that our interest in having a public meeting on this topic has not changed. While we do not plan on getting into a detailed discussion tomorrow, we respect your ability to voice your opinion on this very important issue. I appreciate you asking again about property guidelines and logistics information – will be same approach as in Oregon re: sidewalk location. When you arrive, please call my colleague Grace Davis who manages Corporate Affairs for California at {XXX} and she will come down to say hello and take any additional statements/information you want to share back internally. If you have any trouble reaching Grace in the morning, please feel free to email or call me as well. Also, just so I can make sure that Grace is available when you arrive – do you have a general estimated time of arrival?
Regards and safe travels,
Suzanne
Thanks for the response Suzanne. I hear AZ is lovely.
We aim to arrive around 10 am and stay the day. We want to give Intel plenty of time to read the letter we are asking you to sign, discuss amongst yourselves, and get back to us with that signed letter! We’ll wait all day if we need to…
In terms of your position on a public meeting, as far as I am aware, you have not made a clear statement one way or the other. You offered to meet several times as the correct location- is that AZ? Or was that offer strictly for a private meeting. Just confused and want to clarify- you want a public meeting, or you are not open to a public meeting?
I understand and respect the goal of avoiding a detailed exchange out front. Will Grace listen to our statement?
Thanks so much!
Lisa
My apologies Lisa, for any confusion – I thought I was clear from the beginning when I first offered to set up a meeting and you said a few times that you were not interested in having a private meeting, only a public meeting.
To clarify, we are not interested in conducting this type of meeting in a public forum. On an issue this complex, we think it would be more productive to have a meeting where we pull in a number of people who have been working closely on this issue for the past year and sit down with you to have a discussion. I do understand why you want to only talk in a public forum – and I respect that. But we don’t believe that the public meeting of the kind that you suggest would lead to serious dialogue or improved understanding which would be our goal. Should you change your mind, our offer still stands for a private meeting at some point in the future. In terms of location, we could be flexible on this – we just would need some advance notice to plan around travel schedules on our end.
Suzanne
